The Black Book really isn't a book and it's not even black. Originally bound by a black leather cover, it's now a shiny gray binder. It still strikes fear in nominees. When alleged mobster Stephen ...

Black Faces on Covers Don’t Sell Books? Looks like book publishing isn’t all that post-racial, but we already knew that. A controversy has been brewing regarding the book cover for “Liar ...

The problem? The featured books were by white authors, starring characters who have canonically been represented and interpreted as white. One cover, for example, features a black Dorothy with red ...

“What?!? No! Is it really this hard? People sat down & had meetings & put a lot of energy & money into creating covers f/black people on books w/ the same old stories INSTEAD of promoting books ...

Following a backlash, Barnes & Noble said it's suspending a diversity effort to reissue 12 classic books with new covers depicting main characters as black. Critics called the new editions a form ...

Learn more about the book club here. Ann Petry’s “The Street” was the first novel by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. But over the years, not all of its covers conveyed the ...